The Latest: Tennessee deputies being treated after shooting

MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Tennessee courthouse (all times local):

6:45 p.m.

Tennessee officials say one of the deputies shot at a county courthouse is undergoing surgery and the second deputy is being treated for a hand injury.

Coffee County District Attorney General Craig Northcott said at a news conference Monday evening that the shooter was an inmate, Michael Bell, who fled about two blocks away and fatally shot himself.

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Northcott identified the Coffee County deputies as Wade Bassett and Wendell Bowen.

The prosecutor said Bassett went to a holding cell after Bell appeared in court. Northcott said Bell attacked Bassett and took his firearm after a struggle. Northcott said Bell shot the deputy and fled, shooting Bowen on his way out of the building.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said that after the inmate fled, he entered an occupied home, exited and went behind another house and shot himself.

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5 p.m.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the suspect in a shooting that left two deputies injured at a courthouse has died.

The TBI released the news on Twitter. The name of the Coffee County Courthouse shooting suspect was not immediately released.

The bureau says the two deputies who were injured Monday are undergoing medical treatment. Their conditions are not known.

Lucky Knott, a spokesman for the Coffee County Sheriff's Office, said an inmate who was in the courthouse for a scheduled hearing grabbed a deputy's gun and fired. Knott said one deputy was shot in the stomach. He says a second deputy was wounded in the hand, but it's not clear if he was shot or injured in a struggle with the inmate.

Knott says the inmate fled the courthouse, and then he suffered a gunshot wound. Knott says the suspect may have shot himself.

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4:05 p.m.

Two deputies have been injured in Tennessee, where a shooting was reported at a county courthouse.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Twitter that two Coffee County deputies were injured in the shooting Monday afternoon and are undergoing medical treatment.

The county courthouse is located in Manchester, about 65 miles southeast of Nashville.